Blogger is the most popular platform for launching free blogs. It provides many facilities like free domain name and hosting. You can launch upto 100 blogs with only one Google account. Hundreds of Templates For Blogger are available on internet which can make your blog presentable. But unfortunately most of them are designed by UN-known designers. They do not concentrate on SEO friendliness while developing.
You must edit some coding of your blogger template to make that fully search engine optimized. In this post, I shall show you complete guide by following which, you can Make Your Blogger Template SEO Friendly.
You must edit some coding of your blogger template to make that fully search engine optimized. In this post, I shall show you complete guide by following which, you can Make Your Blogger Template SEO Friendly.
Make Blogger Template SEO Friendly
You just have to make some simple edits by going to Template editor.- Sign in To Blogger
- Go To Template>>Edit HTML
- Now, You'll see all coding of your template. You have to make changes in it.
Adding Meta Tags
Actually Meta tags provide information about your blog to search engines. In default templates, these tags have not already included, so you need to add them.
- Click Anywhere in the code area and press Ctrl+F and search for <head>
- It must be in the beginning of code.
- After finding it, paste the following piece of texts just below it.
<meta content='text/html; charset=utf-8' http-equiv='Content-Type'/>
<meta content='Enter-Description' name='description'/>
<meta content='Enter Keywords of Your Site' name='keywords'/>
<meta name="author" content="Author Name">
- Replace Enter-Description with the proper Meta Description of your blog. Replace Enter Keywords of Your Site with keywords and Author Name with the name of author. Keywords should be related to your site and no more than 15.
SEO Optimizing Blogger Posts Titles
If you notice that blog title appears before posts title in search results, it means posts titles require to be well arranged. I have publish a complete tutorial about this topic which will help you. Click Here to read that posts.
- Go to Template>>Edit HTML
- Find <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> in the coding and replace it with the following one.
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> </b:if>
- That's it
Optimize Headings Tags
This post by MyBloggerTricks can help you to optimize headings tags in Blogger.
In this post, I have told you about some common SEO settings. These tricks should be applied just after installing new template. Otherwise your Blogger is not going to perform well in search engines.